Nor'West News: August 03, 2023
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10<br />
Thursday <strong>August</strong> 3 <strong>2023</strong><br />
CROSSWORD<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />
9<br />
10 11<br />
307<br />
SUDOKU<br />
Every row, column and box should<br />
contain the digits 1 to 9.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
WORDBUILDER<br />
207<br />
6<br />
X R T<br />
O V E<br />
12 13<br />
14 15 16 17 18<br />
words of three or more letters,<br />
How<br />
including<br />
many<br />
plurals,<br />
words<br />
can you<br />
of<br />
make<br />
three<br />
from<br />
or<br />
the<br />
more<br />
six<br />
letters, using each letter only once? No foreign<br />
words or words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There's at least one six-letter word.<br />
once?<br />
TODAY<br />
Good 12 Very Good 15 Excellent 19<br />
letters, including plurals, can you make<br />
from the six letters, using each only<br />
No words beginning with a capital are<br />
allowed. There’s at least one six-letter<br />
Solution 206: calf, can, clan, coal, col, cola, con,<br />
FALCON, fan, flan, floc, foal, focal, lac, loaf, loan, oaf,<br />
word. oca.<br />
Good 9 Very Good 13 Excellent 18<br />
19 20 21<br />
22 23 24 25 26<br />
27 28<br />
29<br />
Across<br />
1. Diamonds, sapphires, emeralds<br />
etc (8,6)<br />
10. Turn of phrase (5)<br />
11. Letters sent by post (colloq) (5,4)<br />
12. Type of rice (7)<br />
13. An affair (7)<br />
14. Pry (5)<br />
16. Detest (9)<br />
19. Part (9)<br />
20. Premature (5)<br />
22. Female ruler (7)<br />
25. Stance (7)<br />
27. Chit chat (5,4)<br />
28. Exposed (colloq) (5)<br />
29. Biased (14)<br />
Down<br />
2. Downpour (9)<br />
3. Punctuation mark (5)<br />
4. Stubborn (9)<br />
5. Delay (5)<br />
6. Loquacious (9)<br />
7. Approaches (5)<br />
8. Absence of sound (7)<br />
9. Cloud type (6)<br />
15. Screw (9)<br />
17. Forthright (9)<br />
18. Imaginary instrument (3,6)<br />
19. Folded, wrinkled (7)<br />
21. Surrenders (6)<br />
23. Summits (5)<br />
24. Throng (5)<br />
26. Brief (5)<br />
Crossword<br />
Across: 1. Precious stones,<br />
10. Idiom, 11. Snail mail, 12.<br />
Basmati, 13. Liaison, 14.<br />
Snoop, 16. Abominate, 19.<br />
Component, 20. Early, 22.<br />
Empress, 25. Posture, 27.<br />
Small talk, 28. Outed, 29.<br />
Discriminatory.<br />
Down: 2. Rainstorm, 3.<br />
Comma, 4. Obstinate, 5.<br />
Stall, 6. Talkative, 7. Nears,<br />
8. Silence, 9. Nimbus, 15.<br />
Propeller, 17. Outspoken,<br />
18. Air guitar, 19. Creased,<br />
21. Yields, 23. Peaks, 24.<br />
Swarm, 26. Short.<br />
WordBuilder<br />
ore, over, overt, oxter, ret,<br />
rev, roe, rot, rote, rove, toe,<br />
tor, tore, trove, vert, vet,<br />
veto, vex, VORTEX, vote,<br />
voter<br />
DECODER<br />
Each number represents a different letter of the alphabet. Write the<br />
given letters into all squares with matching numbers. Now work out<br />
which letters are represented by the other numbers.<br />
Decoder<br />
Sudoku<br />
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